2/23/24 p.m. Update: Odysseus Moon Landing...Odie is "alive and well," but on its side.

Another fake landing?

 

I sure hope it is right side up and they can establish a strong communication signal.

 

Talk about something that would have freaked me out. An hour ago I was in the back yard working on my grandson's telescope. He asked me if I could tighten some of the brackets because he couldn't get it to hold steady. If I had been messing with it and saw something landing on the moon I would have freaked out.

 

Some wild engineering on the fly took place

 

Drill baby drill!

 

Is the ultimate goal mining He3?

 

I just read up on He3 on the moon. Multiple billion dollars per ton? That's wild

 

following an estimated trillion(s) $ invested to achieve industrial scale mining, and assuming we have functional scaled He3 reactors to create the demand. Maybe my children will witness a future reality. Guess we need to stake our claim on a share of the pie.

 

Similar to how peeps from 100 years ago would be shocked at our current tech, we would be equally shocked at what they may have by 2124.

 

now they are reporting the lander is not upright but on its side...more at 11:00

 

The moon lander dubbed Odysseus is "alive and well" but resting on its side a day after a white-knuckle touchdown as the first private spacecraft ever to reach the lunar surface, and the first from the United States since 1972, the company behind the vehicle said on Friday.
The chief executive officer of Houston-based Intuitive Machines, which built and flew the lander, said the vehicle is believed to have caught one of its six landing feet on the lunar surface during its final descent and tipped over, coming to rest propped up sideways on a rock.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/...ter-white-knuckle-lunar-touchdown-2024-02-23/

 

https://www.reuters.com/technology/...ter-white-knuckle-lunar-touchdown-2024-02-23/
states lander is horizontal but functional.